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Gardeners are a patient group. After sowing seeds, you need to wait and let Mother Nature take over. Constantly tapping your toes, staring longingly at those seed trays for signs of life waiting for seed germination. For some annuals, it’s relatively fast, maybe a week, yet for other herbaceous beauties, they make you wait even […]

Gardening is a fabulous skill set that has a plethora of immeasurable benefits for both gardeners like you and Mother Nature. It offers nothing but positivity as you learn to grow, live with the seasons and improve your well-being. No one will tell you off even if you make a mistake gardening. The garden is […]

I’m the kind of chap who likes to think of myself as part of the solution, not the problem, which is why I took to Garden Without Plastic for an entire year alongside its champion, garden writer Sally Nex. Sally has been taking to the press columns, and I shall be taking to both my […]

Ethical gardeners, like the Garden Ninja community, do as little harm as possible to the environment and, hopefully, make things better as we work with Mother Nature. However, during our gardening practices, we often have to buy things to help us grow, particularly compost for planting seedlings, growing vegetables or container gardening. But did you […]

It’s a real surprise that the mighty Medlar tree isn’t more popular for small gardens. Not only is it a well-behaved small fruit tree, but it is self-fertile. Meaning it produces fruits without the need for a pollinator tree. It’s also one of the only winter-fruiting trees, so why aren’t they more popular? This is […]

Do you sometimes look out into your garden and feel disappointed that it looks empty or all crammed in for a few fleeting moments? Does your garden seem to run away with itself and be a firework that goes off once a year and then fizzles? If this sounds like your garden, you must join […]

Sustainable, peat and chemical-free gardening is nothing new for the Barnsdale Gardens team, who have been growing in a peat-free compost for over 30 years and have had great success with the wide range of plants using this peat-free medium. Geoff Hamilton, was a pioneer in organic gardening using peat and chemical-free techniques and the […]

Hello, fellow green-thumbs. It’s Garden Ninja here, your trusty guide to all things gardening. Today, I’m here to revolutionize your gardening calendar by extolling the wonders of autumn planting over the traditional spring or summer sowing. There are so many benefits to planting up a garden in autumn and often new gardeners think they can […]

Shrubs play a vital role in the garden’s aesthetic by providing structure and texture to help connect your gardens planting scheme. They also offer a home for wildlife and ensure that any garden design has a good grounding with what we garden designers call ‘punctuation‘ (the ability to break up an eyeliner with shrubs or […]

Gooseberries are a fuss-free fruiting shrub that are a great fruit bush for beginner gardeners. Suitable for container gardens, small gardens, big gardens or allotment patches. They are a brilliant addition to the edible garden. Gooseberries, however, have a crisis of conscience with gardeners who panic to prune them properly. Given their rugged, thorny appearance, […]